Hunted by sundry radical Islamists, abandoned by the selectively secular Congress and Bengal Communists, championed by BJP as a cause of free speech, Taslima Nasreen is a writer on the run around whom minority politics is being played out with brazen competitiveness.

It was disappointing to see the North-east not being covered in the issue (“Best of India”, November 26). One is then forced to conclude that either the perspective about this region is still to change or the magazine’s correspondents are ignorant about this place.

Guwahati: On November 24, a new chapter was added to Assam’s history of ethnic violence when a procession of Adivasis at Dispur demanding Scheduled Tribe status was lathicharged and teargassed by police.

Rahul Gandhi is expected to campaign in the second phase of Gujarat elections, hoping not so much to defeat Narendra Modi as to better his own record of Uttar Pradesh where his presence barely helped the party’s vote kitty.

There has been a dramatic turn of events in Pakistan. It began with the sudden return of Nawaz Sharif for the second time in just over two months, adding to Pakistan’s already boiling cauldron of political intrigue.